30th June 2012 Archive

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Second win for Apple as Galaxy Nexus sales banned in US

Bad week for Samsung's lawyers

Apple has scored its second legal victory of the week with a court ruling on Friday that effectively bans sales of Samsung's Galaxy Nexus smartphone in the US. Fresh from her ban on Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 earlier in the week, US District Judge Lucy Koh has issued a pre-trial injunction against Samsung over the Android …

Law 30 Jun 00:53
Ten... Androids for under 200 quid

Product Round-up The price is right?

At the Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona earlier this year, Google chief Eric Schmidt famously said that he expected Android smartphones to be as cheap as normal phones as soon as 2013. The current sub-£200 Sim-free sweet spot in 2012 means you can expect large screens and a variety of processors. Yet don't expect …

reghardware 30 Jun 07:00
TiVo plunges into Swedes after penetrating Virgin Media

Gets another pipe into the box

The announcement that Com Hem of Sweden has cut a deal with TiVo this week shows how the TiVo strategy is rolling out in Europe and points to more and more deals being likely in the future. Expect it to drift outside of Europe soon, as well. Com Hem gives another 643,000 cable customers in Europe a chance to buy TiVo service. …

Business 30 Jun 09:00
Brits upscaling their TV buys

Bedroom or living room, sets are getting bigger

British homes may be generally smaller than those of, say, the US or Australia, but the nation's TV buyers are nonetheless increasingly keen on bigger and bigger tellies. UK TV sales fall into two broad categories: small and large. It's not hard to understand why. We buy small sets for bedrooms, bigger ones for the living room …

reghardware 30 Jun 09:30
IBM trims Flex System prices

Global Services behemoth offers installation hand-holding

It looks like some customers are complaining a little about the pricing IBM's new PureSystems modular systems - and they want a little help to get the new iron and its systems and cloud management software up and running. In response, Big Blue has tweaked some prices on the Flex System iron underneath the PureSystems …

Servers 30 Jun 20:26
Amazon cloud knocked out by violent storms in Virginia

Mother Nature huffs and puffs a derecho

A wave of "hurricane-like" thunderstorms ripped across Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, and Virginia on Friday night, leaving more than 3.5 million people without power and knocking out the US-East-1 data center operated by Amazon Web Services. Netflix, Pinterest, Instagram, and Heroku, which run their services atop Amazon's …

Cloud 30 Jun 20:55